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Brome

//bɹəʊm// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A village surrounded by the town of Brome Lake, Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  3. 3
    A village in Brome and Oakley parish, Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1376).
  4. 4
    A municipality and Samtgemeinde in Gifhorn district, north of Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any grass of the genus Bromus. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    bromine obsolete, uncountable
  3. 3
    any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the genus name, New Latin Bromus, from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “oat, wild oat”).

Etymology 2

From French brome, coined from Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”). Doublet of bromus.

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